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Just in case you don't regularly check the club section, there is a big announcement posted there. The WHCC now accepts Paypal and all major credit cards via Paypal for membership dues. You can visit the site at: http://www.wheelhorsecc.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=4 Your membership package will be mailed to you via USPS. On behalf of the WHCC, thank you for your continued support !

I have seen that there are some changes at the Wheel Horse Collectors Club and the show. One of the changes is that ALL vendors will be required to be Club members! This makes perfect sense to me, however filling out the form and mailing it in is a hassle so that is the next change..... Wheel Horse Collectors Club NOW accepts PayPal (and credit cards through PayPal) to join or renew your membership! I have already tried it out and it is so easy and fast! In addition to supporting RedSquare, supporting WHCC is a great way to insure that our favorite show continues, so what are you waiting for, JOIN or RENEW today, I did! If you're planning on selling at the show, save your e-mail receipt as proof of club membership, you will be asked!

Awesome! Thanks Eldon! @kj4kicks I don't know who got this pushed through, but I bet you'll see the rewards with a bump in membership!

I was hoping to put an 8 speed transmission on my 854 mostly for the limited slip diff, but it would be nice to have low range every once in a while. Before I knew anything about the differences in transmissions (input shaft/pulley size especially) i happened upon a pretty trashed 867. The transmission shifted smoothly into all the gears and I got it for a song (was at the persons house 3 hours after listed on CL!) so the adventure began. I learned after the fact that this was an excellent bit of luck as it was the only year of 8 speed to have the right input pulley to match up to the engine pulley on my 854! Got the rest of the 867 dealt with a few months back and never had a chance to really take a look at the transmission until tonight. I knew that one hub was welded on the axle and the other was busted up so I preemptively bought good used replacement axles and I have hubs from a C-165 I can use. Ground off quite a bit of really ugly weld, had to bite into the hub and axle a fair amount. Broken hub (with a leaky seal behind it, maybe an early attempt to replace?) Got both hubs off without too much effort... Well the axle keyways look... perfect.. what!? Lets check the hub... WTH!? Keyway is also nearly perfect... whoever welded this was a nutcase. I had to ruin the hub and axle to remove it. Was this a setscrew originally? Looks a bit cobbled. I had mixed in a bit of pure methanol to clean out the oil... Dumped out a gallon of mostly water. No oil to be found. All setup on my 'work station' ready to be torn into. To Be Continued...

1970 GT-14 with the 36" tiller, turns the dirt into brown sugar! Pic is before the restoration of the GT.

I'll pass that request along to the board

Maybe you should get Terry to make you some new decals saying 520-HF. please.

This was a long time needed! Maybe will help get some Chocolate Chip Ice Cream

Did the HF Predator repower. Pretty easy. Sleeve for shaft, Spacers under motor plate, modify PTO mount, modify exhaust. Ignition switch, circuit breaker, throttle, fuel lines, all easy to hook up.(eliminated all gauges and crazy old wiring) Best thing $600. Would have had much more than that in my P220 rebuild. (valve seats) Might not last long might not be able to get parts. But, fun project, and the 520 is ALIVE again!

Done. I am now a member of WHCC!

Instead of the bolt, I like to keep the new filter loose/cracked open. It will help speed the fill until it reaches that point. I also always pre-fill the filter before installing it to help as well. Second, on the Napa 1410.

Always wanted to be a member, but never got my act together enough to do the old fashioned payments. Love this!

Can you post some pictures. Sounds very interesting.

You bet. Go to the Instructional Threads & Videos category on the Wheel Horses References section from the home page and you'll find all sorts of good stuff to help you out. You can also download the repair manual here. Then start a thread on your problem and you'll get a ton of help,

I gotta think about that one. I may save it for show and try to get one to work with. This NOS one I got at the Show has a gage wheel which is something I have no experience with. Looks like a good idea though!

Well i guess its time for me to admit I need a horse with more power I've been using my B-60 for a year or two now and I've always thought it had plenty of power but sense i've been using it to help my brother mow his yard that is very big and has lots of hills i've realized the B-60 just don't have enough power. I have to mow in 1st gear most the time 2nd if i'm lucky and the little 36" rd just is not that big when you get out in a wide open area I love using it at home in my little in town yard but i think i'm going to look for something a little bigger like a 312 or 314. I would like to hear what you guys think about this decision

For the 1977 model long frame tractors like a C-120 42" rear discharge model 75-42MR01 Drive belt #102741 is 1/2" x 96.6" --- Spindle belt #6738 is 1/2" x 86" 42" side discharge model 75-42MS01 Drive belt #102742 is 1/2" x 103" --- Spindle belt #1594 is 1/2" x 107.21" Garry

Take it down to the upholstery shop and have it covered in black leather with a zipper. Got to make it worthy of a Wheel Horse!

GOD, I love it when he talks that way! LOL

I mailed them this morning. Weight...7 1/2 lbs Cost...$60.85 Holy Cow Craig...guess there are some collections out there...

Could you add a picture of gear(s), I've got some unidentified bevel gears, definitely not for WH tran or tiller.

The easier the better for the host. You don't want to get too much involved and spend too much money and only 10 guys show up. Not that the 10 guys wouldn't have a good time, but it just doesn't seem worth all the money and time. Moving something from AtoB is something Vince and I are pretty good at. If anyone needs something brought back from the Portland IN show, I can help out there.

We had one a couple of years ago at Jay's house in Selma NC. Lots of food and a homemade cake shaped like a wheel horse tractor (Yummy) !

I was thinking 520 PREDATOR

Harbor Freight is pretty good on support of their products so I wouldn't worry too much. Yes, pictures please!

Glad you have it running now.

N.O.S. $200-$300.

Ebay search... "licence plate lots"

Hey you! Yea you, in the peanut gallery. Shut yer pie hole! LOL Pay no attention to the Maynard behind the curtain.

I sure do like the kohler commands. I think they are one of the smoothest engines out there. I did have a sovergn with the OHC 18 hp. It was a 2000 very nice, had power steering as well

Likely story... selling for a friend.

I've seen bad condensors cause poor running at higher rpms. Cheap fix if that's the problem.

Well i havent looked at the one i have but i have ordered the correct keyswitch off amazon matching the part number. Hoping it works. Would jumping it from the solenoid turn it on if the safety switches dont work? Im appreciating all the help. Ill have to try testing the new keyswitch if it doesnt fix it

Brandon, Bill cut the stack and had some stainless metal. Drilled some holes into it, cut it the dia. of the pipe and welded it in.

Thanks, just realized that as well. On closer inspection of the sheared piece, it is a part of that roll pin and not the set screw. Either way, those are easy fixes and its all good news to me!

Got the rest of the plates from Shallowwatersailor and KC9KAS and a Midwest Vans plate that I've had since the 1970's...8 more plates. Total...26 plates No. of States...12 Weight of plates (on my scale)...7 lbs...before packaging I'll wrap them up and mail them either Thursday or Friday. Koen, I hope you have room for all these plates.

Gee Mike, I remember when you bought (stole) those hubcaps. I'll give you what you paid for them.

Finally had a little bit of time to get my pics off the camera and go through them. . Joe @joebob, Tom @Shynon, Mike @prondzy, Terry @Terry M and Ed's collections... (I set up over by my family and completely forgot to take a picture of my own tractors) Lowell @wheelhorseman1000 and his wife also came down for the weekend. Mike, Tom and Lowell hanging out in the shade... Joe and Terry and Andrew My younger daughter giving wagon rides to her sister and cousins My older daughter doing the same.My oldest with her twin cousinsMy nephew and brother-in-law... he's two and is actually getting pretty good at driving. He can completely solo on his hydro Ford 140And posing on what we affectionately call "the circus tractor"This was a great little rare piece Would love to find one of these! A Struck Mini-Beep.A Garden Alland a few other random pics.

nice trick building up your edges! I've used similar when joining two odd shaped pieces and clamping them both to the brass.

Here are a couple of more pictures. Planing to do a little yard work this fall. A pulverizer I built to plant grass.

Interesting observation as they are both #79365 5xi snowthrowers! On mine, it was just the outer bearing by the chain. I wish that the 5xi version had a removable chain sprocket like the #79360/79362 instead of being welded to the shaft. The replacement shaft is $$$. It probably is due to the additional torque available with the 5xi different engine designs.

Purchased from a Red Square member a few months ago then hauled all the way from the big show by another Red Square member this 1045 serial #21858 is now making it's home in Minnesota. She looks tough but will get the full treatment, new heart is already awaiting to bring this one back to life.

Jim, i suppose what I consider a cross between a work and show tractor is one that isn't restored to factory spec because it's been personalized with other stuff. I'm not talking like a guy bought everything they have at Auto Zone and threw it on there or anything. But the tractor would also still be used to cut grass. I've love to upgrade the floor mats to the newer style on my 312-8 and also add a cup holder among some other things. I've already upgraded to LED tail lamps and priced out LED 2x3 work lamps that would mount ahead of the pedals and point to the area along side the hood on each side. It'd be a couple hundred bucks though. shame, I had some re-purposed insecticide tube brackets from planters at work that would work great for mounting work lamps. Not in the budget to finish the project right now. that makes me wonder if we offer a thrust washer kit. We have a lot of other kits for heat shrink, cotter pins, electrical ends etc.

If it won't crank I'd start at the battery.

Never underestimate the power of a rattle can ... Just saying ...

Here are some pictures of the Wheel Horse representation at the Little Guys Show today., Friday 5/15 In no particular order.

Hey Decksetter! "Fog it" is the slang of using a fogging spray, (fogging oil), that you spray in the spark plug holes of motors you are going to store for a long time. The Onan I've been working on has been sitting on the side of my bench in the garage for 4 years before I needed to put it in service. Onan suggests pulling the heads every 1000 hours to de-carbon. Many clean theirs every 500 hours. I bought the motor and took the tins off of it to clean the fins but never de-carboned it. Before I installed and started it, I thought now is the time to de-carbon it since it was handy on my bench and I found the fogging oil lifted the carbon off. It was everywhere with many large chunks and some of it was very hard. I don't doubt I would have screwed the rings big time had I run it without opening it up. On looking at the engine I pulled, I can't wait either but I'm not touching the old engine until the loader is completely together and I straighten up the bench. It looks like a tool explosion in there right now. I'm about as organized as a train wreck in that garage. I should have a GPS locator for every hand tool I touch!

I have a Peerless transaxle out of a B111 if you'd be interested. the peerless is a much better unit than the foote! It is a model 600. However the shipping from me to you would be pretty high! The 600 peerless was a widely used transaxle and any of them should fit your tractor.ABout the only differences are axle lengths. If you found one locally You could buy it and I could ship you the parts off of this one to make it correct for a B111....just an offer. As well there are some other Peerless units that could be used in place of the Foote.